People like this should be locked up

[Raptor]

As I mentioned, I'm on 80 acres and have only killed the hots up near the house. It'd be impossible to go and kill off all the hots. While animals might not be dumb, they are overly curious. I've had many animals get injured due to how curious they are. Additionally, cattle are much different than goats. Size, for one example.

The average weight of a cow is 1400. The average weight of a goat is say..120. The cow is about 12 times heavier than the goat, meaning the venom will be diluted. I once had a 1200 pound horse get bit by a snake. Other than localized swelling, she was fine. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I had a 60 pound goat get bit who ended up losing some muscle function after being bit.

I'd also hazard a guess that you're uncle doesn't have five ponds near/on his property and a large network of creeks like I do (I have three ponds on the property, two that are about 100 meters apart with a third that's about a quarter mile away. On either side of the property, you can hop a fence and find two more ponds. Crisscrossed over the east and south part of the property are numerous creeks..In short: prime cottonmouth territory).

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as far as people breeding snakes and culling them off well that's their choice and frankly I wouldn't do it but that's me......as far as calling fish and game or law enforcement yeah everywhere they are cracking down especially here too many endangered species due to macho people thinking omg it was a gonna eat me walking a hundred yards away in the opposite direction or omg that snake was in the dirt off the side of the road and there may have been some threat about it so I swerved to hit it.....Pretty soon people are going to realize the laws change with out them knowing it only in the last few years has operation game thief been in action now and well people are paying the price

Culling is part of any breeding operation. You're going to get subpar animals and you're going to have to find a method of unloading them. I'm fairly certain you wouldn't keep and breed a snake with severe kinks. Also..fish and wildlife isn't going to care about killing cottonmouths and copperheads. They're not endangered in the least bit.

Edit: oh snap. Hit the quote button instead of edit >_<